Archive for December, 2010

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Top Ten Viral Videos of 2010

What makes a great viral video is part art, part creativity and part cojones. Here is a list (there are many different lists) of 10 great ones from 2010. DC Shoes  Google  Old Spice  Transport Accident Commission (Australia)  Old Spice  Evian  Chevrolet  Coca-Cola  Hyundai  Old Spice  Richard. Share

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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

Lets hope this gets to all of you

It is that time of the year for cute stuff…so here is a lovely little viral video made by Walter C May who is in the band The Daylights (no idea who he is). It’s a message from Walter to his girlfriend, but we could all do with some heart-felt long distance wishes…so from me [...]

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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

santacon is coming to town

You better watch out because santacon is coming to town. A great example of social networking in action and flash mobbing for Xmas…or possibly just an excuse for drinks all round! 13,000 santas experienced santacon in Ireland in 2007. Santacon 2010 has been staged in more than 180 locations in 25 countries and I am [...]

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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

the “people’s typeface”

Today, our technology vendor, Digital Arena, sent the TimeZoneOne studio a great Xmas present. The gift is the book Just My Type by Simon Garfield. For design enthusiasts this is a great read! Chapter 8 is the story of the world famous Johnston Sans typeface designed by Edward Johnston for the London Underground in 1915 [...]

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Monday, December 20th, 2010

flash mob guerrilla marketing

  Great advertisement for T-Mobile in the U.K. They must have a flash budget to match! Flash Foley Share

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Sunday, December 19th, 2010

zoners freezing in festive frankfurt

News just in : En route to sunny Malta, Zoners Raewyn and Richard have been stranded at Frankfurt airport due to extreme winter weather across much of Europe. More than 540 flights were cancelled on Sunday due to the extreme weather. Fortunately, Richard comes from Gore…but this is unlikely to help on this occassion. Wishing [...]

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Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Gap filler

We had an earthquake here a couple of months ago. Things have settled down a lot now, although every so often we still get an aftershock strong enough for us to freeze in our tracks and look around for the nearest large piece of furniture to hide under. Well I do anyway. My rather more [...]

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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

The art of authenticity

  Recently we’ve been helping a number of our clients establish blogs. Actually setting up a blog is pretty easy, jump on a good blogging platform, half an hour later you’re done and if you want it to be part of your existing website and look extra spiffy (which naturally you do); well that’s one [...]

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Monday, December 13th, 2010

Why having a baby is great for creativity

The TimeZoneOne team has been pretty busy over the last couple of years hatching brand new little Zoners, who are now teaching their loving parents that sleeping is for losers. The other day I was hanging out the nappies (the unspeakable glamour) and making a to do list in my head. To do lists are [...]

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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

robot news

It’s about time we had a robot update, so here’s what is happening in the world of robots. The Trons may be the first attempt by robots to be creative. The Trons’ first dip into stardom came from their YouTube video, which received over 80,000 hits in two day, going on to amass almost a [...]

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